- Use RestrictedDTypeMixin for dtype validation in
Filter/Factor/Classifier.
- Use new LatestMixin for Latest{Filter,Factor,Classifier} instead of
duplicating logic across all three.
- Always ignore return values in _validate.
- Consistently call super() first in validation mixins.
Classifiers are computations that represent grouping keys. They can be
used in conjuction with normalization functions like ``zscore`` or
``demean`` to perform normalizations over subsets of a dataset.
Notable changes:
- Added ``demean()`` and ``zscore()`` methods to ``Factor``.
- Added a classifier versions of ``Latest`` and ``CustomTermMixin``.
The .latest attribute of int64 dataset columns no produces a
classifier by default.
- Added ``Everything``, a classifier that maps all data to the same
value.
- Added ``zipline.lib.normalize``, which implements a naive, pure-Python
grouped normalize function. This will likely be moved to Cython in a
subsequent PR.
Scott Sanderson