Seconded. Additionally, without any analysis, the market rate for this type of thing is such that $15K for the whole 5-7 days is going to be the neighborhood that you find. Plenty of 1-day software seminars are $700/person and have a class size of 20. I actually found the $15k number for 5-7 days to be fairly generous based, again, on lots of market price numbers I've seen.
Additionally, you're not just asking for "how to use this piece of software", but a fairly complicated (to most people) suite of software AND signal processing knowledge on top of it. I have a lot of experience with both industry and academia, and your best bet, I think is to go 100% academia here, specifically within seismology if you can. You might be able to do some sort of exchange where you're able to get an expert to come in for a few days and "pay" them with access to some of your data, instruments, etc that they don't have. I'd start googling for numpy/scipy users within the seismology community and try to catch somebody who has some free time this summer and perhaps turn this into a mutually beneficial engagement that's not just about the money. Just a thought. -- Nate On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Morris Bernstein < [email protected]> wrote: > Good luck with this. > > Here's why you're seeing those numbers. Let's say a competent software > engineer's salary is $100k. With a 2000-hour year, that $50/hour. But > that's not the total cost which you can double for insurance, capital > equipment, overhead, profit, etc. A reasonable loaded labor rate is about > $100/hour. What's your auto mechanic's shop rate these days? > > How much prep time is required for a 40-hour class? 3 hours per hour of > class time? so that's a minimum of 160 hours, or $16k. Of course, one can > reduce that a bit if the course materials can be reused, but you're asking > for custom work. > > Since commercial training is so expensive, you are going to want a whole > level of polish on the presentation. Something of the quality of a > textbook with professional-looking graphics. That takes time to prepare. > Some chicken scratching that I can do on paper (or a white board) in a > couple of minutes takes an hour or more to do as a crude drawing with > illustrator (or inkscape). It'd take me hours to do the same graphic at > publication-quality, just making it look good, not adding information > content. Time is $$$. > > I'll admit to having tried to do this last quarter and falling on my face. > It wasn't the money, which I considered a loss leader; it was simply that > I did not have enough time to devote to bringing the presentation to the > level of quality they expected. > > You're asking for champagne on a beer budget if you want something > customized. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Chad Trabant <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Hello all, >> >> We are looking for an instructor to come to our office and teach our >> experienced developers basic to advanced Python. I'm hopeful the SeaPIG >> can help us find such an instructor. The course topics we would like to >> cover include: >> >> * Introduction to Python (for experienced developers) >> * Reading and writing technical data (HDF, NetCDF, MATLAB) >> * NumPy >> * SciPy with focus on signal processing >> * Interfacing with C and Fortran >> * Data visualizations (matplotlib and beyond) >> >> Class size would be up to 8 or 9 folks with smaller groups depending on >> the topic (some have Python experience and can skip the basics). Looking >> to do the training before the end of the year, ideally later this summer or >> fall. Ideally we would like these covered in a week or week and a half >> with a mix of full days and some half days, but we are flexible. >> >> Naturally we are prepared to compensate the instructor(s). After getting >> quotes from some well known Python training companies and suffering sticker >> shock ($15K and up!), we are looking for alternatives. >> >> Before we commit with any instructor we'll want to see examples of >> experience, specifically for coding and ideally for instruction. >> >> If you are interested in such an opportunity please contact me. If you >> have any suggestions for how to find such an instructor please pass that >> along too. >> >> About us: We are non-profit seismological data center (funded by the >> National Science Foundation), our users are academic researchers in the US >> and around the world. Our office is near the main UW campus in Northeast >> Seattle. http://www.iris.edu/dms/nodes/dmc/ >> >> thanks, >> Chad >> IRIS DMC > > >
