Enhancement Request: Specifying Data to Exclude from Correlation Analysis

[jwc1018]

As a user, I often have longer time periods of data that I would like to analyze all at once, but there may be a significant number of data values (within the overall time range of my dataset) that I would like to exclude from the correlation analysis. These time periods might be shutdown (downtime) periods, they might be a mode of operation that isn't appropriate to include in the correlation analysis, or there may simply be gaps in the dataset that I don't want to interpolate across. Rather than running the correlation analysis separately for each segment of data, I would like to have a straightforward way to specify time periods to exclude from the correlation analysis. As one potential idea for implementation, I could create a Seeq condition representing "Excluded Time Periods", and the correlation analysis would not map any time shifted signal A, B pairing values across the capsules in the "Excluded Time Periods" condition. In other words, the collection of signal A, B pairing values, which ultimately determine the correlation coefficient at a given time shift for the correlation heatmap, would not include values separated by the capsules in my "Excluded Time Periods" condition; the mapping of paired values would stop at the beginning of a capsule and then restart when the capsule ends (no mappings across capsules).