Matt Bracher-Smith

Matt Bracher-Smith

Husband and father by day. And also by night. Heroic, handsome, selfless, humble. I’ve been called many things. Unfortunately none of them are listed here. I write about things and stuff. I’m trying to specialise a bit, so I might just write about things.

Welcome to my blog! Tutorials for lessons are over in the teaching tab. Nonsensical rambling is in the blog posts. Enjoy.

Recent posts

Weekly review 2

1 minute read

My second weekly review (a little late due to life events, but still here!).

Data Engineering by Example

1 minute read

I’m creating a GitHub repository with examples of common procedures in data engineering. This is because I recently decided to get more practical and hands-o...

Weekly review 1

1 minute read

This is the first public weekly review I’ll do, and will set up the template for all future ones. The basic idea comes from Ali Abdaal (with his coming from ...

Immortal Time Bias

3 minute read

I recently had to overhaul an analysis after I realised a common issue had snuck in. As you can probably guess by the title, that issue was immortal time bia...

Helper functions for profiling

less than 1 minute read

This post is a bit of a holding place for code I find helpful for quickly profiling the CPU or RAM that isn’t comprehensive enough to go in a github repo.