Code to beat the logistic regression benchmark using Python and Vowpal Wabbit.
Competition page: https://www.kaggle.com/c/criteo-display-ad-challenge
Forum share post: http://www.kaggle.com/c/criteo-display-ad-challenge/forums/t/9583/beat-the-benchmark-with-vowpal-wabbit
Full description at MLWave.com: http://mlwave.com/predicting-click-through-rates-with-online-machine-learning/
Vowpal Wabbit repo: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit