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TID-40/ Big Data Monetisation

Your Data Is a Goldmine. Learn How to Profit from It. Discover the strategies behind today’s most successful data-driven business models. This course gives you the tools to identify hidden value in your data, design revenue-generating solutions, and drive innovation across your organization.

3-Day Intensive Course for Technical Professionals

3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your hands-on journey from raw data to monetizable assets:

Day 1: Architecting for Value: Data Value Chains & Infrastructure Setup

Map your data’s value potential and build the backend to support monetization: pipelines, APIs, and governance.

Day 2: Engineering the Flow: Pipelines, Products & Insights

Use real tools (Spark, Kafka, Airflow, BigQuery) to create, package, and expose data products for internal and external value.

Day 3: Monetization Engines: APIs, Marketplaces & Security at Scale

Build and publish data services, implement DaaS APIs, and integrate monetization layers like billing, privacy controls, and licensing logic.

Course Overview

Data is the new oil, but only if it’s refined. This course turns raw technical skill into business value. Learn how to build monetizable data assets, expose them through APIs and data products, and deploy them at scale using modern cloud and open-source tools.

You’ll go beyond analytics into data engineering for monetization, including:

  • Building monetizable pipelines

  • Creating and exposing data services

  • Leveraging open data marketplaces

  • Embedding privacy, consent, and billing controls

Designed for engineers, developers, and architects, this course bridges the gap between backend systems and business models.

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1: Architecting for Value: Data Value Chains & Infrastructure Setup

  • Identify monetization-ready data assets in your organization

  • Understand direct vs indirect monetization paths (productization, internal optimization, external APIs)

  • Set up environments for scalable data operations (Docker, Airflow, Spark clusters, Cloud functions)

  • Build your monetization infrastructure:

    • Data lakes vs data warehouses (Delta Lake, BigQuery)

    • Data governance frameworks (GDPR, DMBOK)

    • Data catalogs (Apache Atlas, OpenMetadata)

Tools: Apache Spark, Docker, Airflow, Delta Lake, BigQuery
Focus: Architecture • Infrastructure • Value Mapping

Day 2: Engineering the Flow: Pipelines, Products & Insights

  • Build real-time and batch data pipelines for monetizable outcomes
    (Kafka ➜ Spark ➜ BigQuery ➜ API)

  • Transform raw data into data products:

    • Cleaned datasets

    • Enriched insights

    • Pre-built features (ML-ready)

  • Visualize for consumption and integration:

    • Kibana dashboards

    • Embedded Power BI tiles

    • API endpoints (FastAPI, Flask)

  • Package assets for reuse and delivery (Parquet, Arrow, API responses)

Tools: Kafka, Spark, dbt, Power BI, Kibana, FastAPI
Focus: Pipelines • Packaging • Insight Delivery

Day 3: Monetization Engines: APIs, Marketplaces & Security at Scale

  • Build and deploy monetization-ready APIs (FastAPI + Swagger + rate-limiting + billing)

  • Integrate with marketplaces (Snowflake Data Marketplace, Dawex, Azure Data Share)

  • Add authentication, access control, and usage metering (OAuth2, JWT, API gateways)

  • Explore advanced monetization models:

    • DaaS (Data-as-a-Service)

    • IaaS (Insight-as-a-Service)

    • Partner & platform monetization (via webhook/stream access)

  • Address privacy, IP, and licensing concerns programmatically (GDPR tags, anonymization pipelines)

Tools: FastAPI, Swagger, Stripe/Billing APIs, OpenPolicyAgent, Snowflake
Focus: APIs • Security • Licensing • Automation

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Identify, extract, and package monetizable datasets

  • Build scalable data pipelines optimized for reuse and distribution

  • Expose data products via secure, measurable APIs

  • Integrate billing, metering, and licensing logic into data services

  • Deploy data monetization workflows in production-grade cloud environments

  • Navigate privacy, compliance, and ethical frameworks with technical confidence

Who Should Take This Course?

  • Data engineers looking to evolve from pipelines to products

  • Backend developers exploring API-driven monetization

  • DevOps engineers deploying monetization and metering workflows

  • Cloud architects building multi-tenant data platforms

  • ML engineers preparing enriched features as a monetizable asset

  • Tech leads and CTOs developing data-centric business models

Class Reference: TID-40
Form Updated on: 06/16/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/16/2025

Program Note
The course is updated in real-time with new APIs, tools, and frameworks to stay ahead in the data economy

Links to resources for presentations or summaries:

5 Ways in Which Big Data Can Help Leverage Customer Data

Data monetization success begins with three key concepts

Big Data Monetization Lessons from Zillow

Search Results monetization

Data Capture – Big Data to Big Profits

Technology Transforms How Insurers Calculate Risk – The New York Times

App Monetization: 6 Bankable Business Models That Help Mobile Apps Make Money | Localytics

Le business model d’une application mobile gratuite | On Business Plan

Publication Search « Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management

From Big Data to Big Profits: A Lesson from Google’s Nest

Airbnb: Lessons on Digital, Startups, Big Data and Disrupting Markets

Uber-fication: Lessons from Uber in Economics, Digital, Risk, and Analytics

Chief Data Officer Toolkit: Leading the Digital Business Transformation – Part 1

How to monetize your mobile app

From Big Data to Big Profits, Success with Data and Analytics – Google Play

Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order – The New York Times

Strategies for Monetizing Big Data

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

How will Big Data companies monetize data in 2018?

Determining the Economic Value of Data

Top 5 API Monetization Models | API Business Models | Nordic APIs |

API Business Models

Digitization, digitalization and digital transformation: the differences

#CIOChat: MIT CISR’s business models for the digital economy

 David Rogers on The Digital Transformation Playbook – YouTube

Asymmetric Business Models in WebRTC – The New Dial Tone

How to achieve digital transformation — with CIO as linchpin

Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management

Digital Business Models « Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management

Digital Design « Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management

What is the Digital Threat—and Opportunity? « Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management

Big data monetization throughout Big Data Value Chain: a comprehensive review | Journal of Big Data | Full Text

5 Ways to Generate Direct Revenue With APIs | Nordic APIs |

Developing Data Products | Coursera

Five Questions that Define Your #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo #DX #IoT #SmartCities – Tanjo

The Key to Data Monetization – KDnuggets

Requirements
  • Finish registration 2 weeks after contact
  • Access to a computer with internet and a working microphone
  • Basic Computer Literacy
Target Audiences
  • Data engineers looking to evolve from pipelines to products
  • Backend developers exploring API-driven monetization
  • Cloud architects building multi-tenant data platforms
  • Cloud architects building multi-tenant data platforms
  • ML engineers preparing enriched features as a monetizable asset
Features
  • Program Coordinator: Alexis André des Forges Instructor: Alexis André des Forges Contact Information Alexis André des Forges Email: linguistic.com@gmail.com
  • Teaching Methods: 40% Theory Practical work Serious games Role-playing Simulations
  • Format In-person via video conferencing (Visio). Customization options available Minimum: 1 session per week

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Course Features

3 lessons
0 quiz
3 days
All levels
English
69 students
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July 09, 2025

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