Support missing data during BDA

[sjperkins]

• Tests added / passed

  $ py.test -v -s africanus

  If the pep8 tests fail, the quickest way to correct
  this is to run autopep8 and then flake8 and
  pycodestyle to fix the remaining issues.

  $ pip install -U autopep8 flake8 pycodestyle
  $ autopep8 -r -i africanus
  $ flake8 africanus
  $ pycodestyle africanus
  

• Fully documented, including HISTORY.rst for all changes
  and one of the docs/*-api.rst files for new API

  To build the docs locally:

  pip install -r requirements.readthedocs.txt
  cd docs
  READTHEDOCS=True make html