Every so often I review MRE and check it’s still on track.
If you don’t know, the site was created in 2013 as my home on the Internet where I could talk about my three lifelong passions:
- Models, wargaming and miniature making and painting, read how I started with scale models and miniatures,
- Railways, making model trains and layouts (read more about my journey with tiny trains and model railways), and
- Engineering projects in my shed – steam engines, Arduino programming, woodwork and 3D printing, etc.
So has it stayed to this over the last 13 years?
To find out, I exported the articles, did a bit of data crunching and came up with a list of words (excluding common words) and then poured over this.
Somewhat annoyingly, I then discovered ‘wordclouds.com that can do this and create a pretty word cloud from the results. (This is a visual representation of all the words in all the articles, sized by frequency).
You can see this above, clicking on it brings up a larger version.
Although MRE has grown massively over the years, I’m pleased to see the site hasn’t by diverted onto the wrong track 🙂 Model, trains, railways, tools, painting, tips, learning, community, reviews and guides are the most common words and map nicely to the original goals.
I wonder how this will look in 2033?
Are there any topics related to model trains and model making you’d like to see covered here? Let me know in a comment and I’ll see what I can do.