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Simon Rogers

How many times did the chancellor cry "help"?

Alistair Darling delivers his budget speech — Chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling delivers his budget speech in the House of Commons. Photograph: PA/PA

Well, it was one of the most spoken words in his budget speech today. So, because we're curious, we used a fantastic app built for us by Simon Willison to work out exactly how many times he said what. Check out what we've done with Wordles, too. Let us know if you can do something clever with it.

DATA: the full speech wordcount
INTERACTIVE: the speeches in word clouds

• Can you do something with this data? Please post us your visualisations and mash-ups below or mail us at datastore@theguardian.com

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