v1.0: initial release

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🚀 v1.0 – Initial Release (2025‑04‑19)

We’re thrilled to share the very first official release of EquityStack! This milestone marks a solid, battle‑tested foundation you can build on for applied data work in public health, gender, climate resilience, education, and evaluation.

🎉 Highlights

• Modular toolkit
  • Clean folder structure (notebooks/, social_sector/, cleaning/, visualisation/, modelling/, io_helpers/, validation/, tests/, sample_data/)
• Domain helpers
  • Ready‑to‑use social‑sector functions for MEL, WEE, and climate analytics
• Data wrangling & validation
  • Flexible cleaning pipelines and schema checks to keep your data honest
• Visualization & mapping
  • Custom plot templates and interactive health‑access maps via geopandas + folium
• Modeling templates
  • Statistical and predictive model starters to jump‑start your analyses
• File I/O utilities
  • Robust helpers for CSV, Excel, and GIS workflows

🛠️ Testing & CI

• Automated tests powered by pytest (Python) and testthat (R) covering core modules
• GitHub Actions workflow to run tests and render docs on every push

📚 Documentation

• Comprehensive README with quickstart, folder map, and roadmap snapshot
• Detailed ROADMAP outlining our v1.1+ plans (dashboards, NLP, real‑data integrations)
• CONTRIBUTING guide to help you jump in

📑 Citation & Archiving

• Added a CITATION.cff file for machine‑readable citation metadata
• Zenodo integration set up—your release will be archived with a DOI

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Thank you to everyone who’s tested, provided feedback, or contributed code! If you encounter any issues or have ideas for new features, please open an issue or PR. Here’s to many more releases and improvements! 🎈

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