import vincent
map=r'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/justgrimes/a63e8ec28868d8ce337e/raw/13cd7d8867e579d8b4f6b44f002a99940fba0504/DCNeighborhoodBoundariesWaPo.geojson'

geo_data = [{'name': 'countries',
             'url': map,
             'feature': "features"}]
vis = vincent.Map(geo_data=geo_data, scale=5000)
vis

import vincent

vincent.initialize_notebook()

map=r'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ThomasG77/9e05f8cd04f0406e4529/raw/1974a51fbe081c83c3c20da7bcdb091a3d6604e2/DCNeighborhoodBoundariesWaPo.json'

geo_data = [{'name': 'whatever',
             'url': map,
             'feature': "DCNeighborhoodBoundariesWaPo"}]
vis = vincent.Map(geo_data=geo_data, scale=150000, translate=[-40480], projection='albersUsa')

vis.display()