Behold. A wordle.net depiction of the most common words found in the comment thread attached to the LA Times' obituary of Sen. Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina.

This is a post Ben made on July 4, 2008, 1 year, 8 months ago.

It is filed with other posts about computer-assisted reporting and the news.

Topics include data visualization, jesse helms, la times, north carolina, obituary, word cloud and wordle.

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