nutriverse

Project Launch

27 February 2026

Welcome

nutriverse?

nutriverse is

Open source

  • Developing robust, well-tested, and performant R packages for nutrition data analysis

  • Provide reliable tools that support the full lifecycle of nutrition analytics, from data ingestion and cleaning to statistical analysis, modelling, and reproducible reporting.

Collective

  • Core team of people committed to transforming how nutrition data is used, understood, and shared.

  • We believe that better, more transparent nutrition data analytics can challenge inequities, strengthen public health, and support food systems that work for everyone.

  • Through collaboration and open tools, we push for analytical practices that are rigorous, reproducible, and accountable.

  • We share power and knowledge, support one another’s work, and turn nutrition data into a force for social and health justice.

Community of practice

  • Brings together nutrition data analysts, researchers, and practitioners who are committed to learning from one another.

  • Provides a shared space to exchange methods, tools, and real-world experiences across research, policy, and practice.

  • Through peer learning, collaborative problem-solving, and open discussion, the community supports rigorous, reproducible analytics.

nutriverse so far …

Anthropometric surveys workflow

Dietary assessment workflow

CMAM coverage assessment workflow

nutriverse and friends

RapidSurveys

What else and what next?

  • Multilingual documentation and publishing

  • Packages for accessing nutrition data

  • Packages for standardising nutrition data to ensure interoperability

  • Production-grade nutrition analytics applications

nutriverse community

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done it ourselves’.

- Lao Tzu

Our community is our greatest asset, diversity our greatest strength

Explore

Link

Learn

Create

Support

Explore

  • Explore and discover packages that facilitate research and/or programme monitoring and evaluation

  • Access open health and nutrition data

  • Explore and discover resources on best practices for software development

Learn

  • Be informed by reading and listening

  • Improve the reproducibility of your research and apply best practices in your work

  • Improve your R and software development skills

Create

  • Improve and promote open science in your field

  • Influence package development

  • Improve package documentation and examples

  • Promote best practices for R development

Support

  • Support nutriverse or give back to open source

  • Help other community members

Channels of participation

Zulip

  • an organised team chat app designed for efficient communication

  • The publicly-available forum can be viewed at https://nutriverse.zulipchat.com

  • To join the discussion, you will need to be invited to join the community chat group on Zulip

GitHub

  • Service provider of hosting for software development and version control using git

  • includes features such as bug tracking, feature request, task management, continuous integration and wikis for every project

  • Lowers the barriers to collaboration

Socials

Website

  • Keep up-to-date with news and announcements from the blog

  • Keep up-to-date with latest on nutriverse packages, best practices on software development, and tips on open science and reproducible research practices through our technology notes

  • Hear about the latest events

Community Calls

  • quarterly Community Calls to hear about:

    • latest nutriverse developments;
    • talk about current and new projects by nutriverse or by our community members;
    • discuss best practices, and;
    • listen to Q&As with our nutriverse developers or well-known developers of packages and tools that our community members love to use.

  • first Community Call is on Wednesday, 18 March 2026 featuring Dr Noam Ross, Executive Director of rOpenSci.

How are all these funded?

  • All software made available to the nutrition community since 2018 with no direct funding

  • Some material resources and in-kind inputs through partners

    • University of Oxford for GitHub Pro resources (worth at least $360/year)
    • Team messaging and chat services via Zulip (worth at least $4000/year)

  • At the start of 2026, we have been fortunate to be fiscally-hosted by the Open Source Collective

Funding (continued)

  • With fiscal hosting, we have been approaching foundations and institutions that support open source products to fund developer costs and community building costs

Questions?

Thank you!