Tilesets are rasters which are tiled to create slippy maps, allowing them to overlay on a basemap. They can be generated from vector data to create custom basemaps with your own data featured. Using the Uploader class from the Mapbox Python SDK, GeoJSON files and shapefiles can be programmatically loaded as tilesets into your cloud account.
Read more about tilesets here:
https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#tilesets.
https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#tilesets.