Scott Sanderson ef4f642e62 ENH: Compute engine architecture for FFC API. ...

This patch lays the groundwork for a compute engine designed to
facilitate construction of factor-based universe screening and portfolio
allocation.  It contains:

A new module, `zipline.modelling`, containing entities that can be used
to express computations as dependency graphs.  Each node in such a graph
is an instance of the base `Term` class, defined in
`zipline.modelling.term`.  Dependency graphs are executed by instances
of `FFCEngine`, defined in `zipline.modelling.engine`.

A new module, `zipline.data.ffc`, containing loaders and dataset
definitions for inputs to the modelling API.

New `TradingAlgorithm` api methods: `add_factor`, and `add_filter`.
These methods can only be called from `initialize`, and are used to
inform the algorithm that each day it should compute the given terms.
Computed factor results are made available through a new attribute of
the `data` object in `before_trading_start` and `handle_data`.  Computed
filter results control which assets are available in the factor matrix
on each day.

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