Staircase: fast analysis with step functions

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A new open source Staircase package implements step functions as first‑class objects in Python and demonstrates real, working code in Jupyter (pip/conda install, pandas, matplotlib). Examples show exact operations: layering intervals, boolean masks, integrate() returns hours and mean() for daily averages, union of maintenance intervals, queue size in items and tons, and a group utilization example that yields 13,176.7 hours total and 13.67% idle. Everything is reproducible from the GitHub and docs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:18What are step functions
3. 2:40Creating step functions
4. 6:42Documentation
5. 7:16First Use Case
6. 10:50Second Use Case
7. 15:02Third Use Case

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