I couldn’t help myself. The creative juices started to flow and poetry spewed out of me like warm icing from pastry bag. And then, one poem let to another and another and the twittersphere united in poetry goodness. Do enjoy, then tweet your own poem about statistics, charts, or research methods. I’ll add it here. Enjoy!

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Annie Pettit
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I love stats. And so do you. #poetry #mrx #newmr
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Ole Andresen
@ Roses are red, violets are blue, no one can talk about cookies like you :-) #mrx #poetry #NewMR
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Katie Harris
@ Roses are red, violets are blue; Qual's where it's at, all the rest is just poo! #mrx #poetry #NewMR
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Katie Harris
@ Roses are red, violets are blue, since my preference is qual, I can live with a skew #mrx #poetry #NewMR
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Katie Harris
@ Roses are red, violets are blue – @ is cooking up π and some stew #mrx #poetry #NewMR #yum
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Jon Puleston
@ #Rosesarered, violets are blue, please take part in this research study to find out what is the most popular hue #mrx #poetry
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Roland Bouman
@ "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Respecting standard confidence levels, let's assume it's simply true."
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@ Roses are red violets are blue In a heteroscedastic dataset I would still have found you..
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@ Roses are red Violets are blue – it was a flawed markov chain that led me to you… gotta stop this it's getting addictive
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Dan Kvistbo
@ Roses are red, violets are blue. Know your distributions and you’ll know what to do! #poetry #mrx
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Dan Kvistbo
@ Roses are red, violets are blue. True or false? – without statistical literacy you won’t have a clue… #poetry #mrx
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Dan Kvistbo
@ Roses are red, violets are blue. Bayes, Galton, Pearson et al… where’d we all be without you? #poetry #mrx
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Roses are red, violets are blue, my Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient is point ninety-two. (cc @)
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Annie Pettit
Roses are red, Violets are blue. Statistics make you smile, and graphs do too. #mrx #poetry
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Elias Veris
Roses are red, violets are blue. Without thorough statistical analysis, how would we decide on the new flavour of shampoo? (cc @)
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Jon Puleston
RT @ Roses are red, violets are blue. After extensive market research I chose You.