diff --git a/la_forge/core.py b/la_forge/core.py
index d6bef5a..c6981e8 100644
--- a/la_forge/core.py
+++ b/la_forge/core.py
@@ -5,8 +5,14 @@
 import logging
 from typing import Type
 
+import datetime
+from functools import cached_property
+
+import arviz as az
 import h5py
 import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import xarray as xr
 from astropy.io import fits
 from astropy.table import Table
 
@@ -109,6 +115,18 @@ def __init__(self, chaindir=None, corepath=None, burn=0.25, label=None,
                 self.params = table.colnames
                 self.chain = np.array([table[p] for p in self.params]).T
                 self.chainpath = chaindir + '/chain.fits'
+            # Check if it's in a common arviz format
+            elif os.path.isfile(chaindir + '/chain.nc') or os.path.isfile(chaindir + '/chain.zarr'):
+                self.chainpath = chaindir + '/chain.nc' if os.path.isfile(chaindir + '/chain.nc') else chaindir + '/chain.zarr'
+                extension = self.chainpath.split(".")[-1]
+                try:
+                    inf_data = az.from_netcdf(self.chainpath) if extension=="nc" else az.from_zarr(self.chainpath)
+                except:
+                    msg = f"{self.chainpath} is not a valid ArviZ InferenceData object."
+                    raise ValueError(msg)
+                stacked = az.extract(inf_data)  # combines chains
+                self.chain = stacked.to_array().to_numpy().T  # ArviZ uses dimension 1 for samples, we want it to be 0
+                self.params = [param for param in stacked.variables if param not in ['sample', 'chain', 'draw']]
             else:
                 # Load chain
                 if os.path.isfile(chaindir + '/chain_1.txt'):
@@ -666,6 +684,35 @@ def map_params(self):
         """Return all Maximum a posteri parameters."""
         return self.chain[self.burn + self.map_idx, :]
 
+    @cached_property
+    def arviz(self) -> az.InferenceData:
+        """Create an arviz.InferenceData object from a Core."""
+
+        # Easiest to make a dataframe first
+        df = pd.DataFrame(data=self.chain, columns=self.params)
+
+        # ArviZ wants to see `chain` and `draw` dimensions
+        df["chain"] = 0
+        df["draw"] = np.arange(len(df), dtype=int)
+        df = df.set_index(["chain", "draw"])
+
+        # Make an xarray `Dataset` to give ArviZ
+        xdata = xr.Dataset.from_dataframe(df)
+
+        # Store some metadata
+        xdata.attrs.update(
+            source="la_forge_core",
+            created_at=datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+            .replace(microsecond=0)
+            .isoformat(),
+        )
+
+        # Make the ArviZ object
+        dataset = az.InferenceData(posterior=xdata)
+
+        return dataset
+
+
 # --------------------------------------------#
 # ---------------HyperModel Core--------------#
 # --------------------------------------------#
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ea5a734..82731b6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ astropy>=3.0
 corner
 six
 h5py>=3.4.0
+arviz>=0.19.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0809594..dc6261e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,15 +11,23 @@
 with open('HISTORY.rst') as history_file:
     history = history_file.read()
 
-requirements = ['numpy>=1.16',
-                'scipy>=1.0.0',
-                'matplotlib>=2.0.0',
-                'corner',
-                'h5py>=3.4.0',
-                'astropy>=3.0',
-                'six',
-
-                ]
+requirements = [
+    "numpy>=1.16",
+    "scipy>=1.0.0",
+    "matplotlib>=2.0.0",
+    "corner",
+    "h5py>=3.4.0",
+    "astropy>=3.0",
+    "six",
+    "arviz>=0.19.0",
+    "zarr>=2.5.0,<3",
+    "netcdf4",
+    "xarray-datatree",
+    "dm-tree",
+    "contourpy",
+    "bokeh>=3",
+
+]
 
 test_requirements = ['pytest', ]