Vowpal Wabbit is a really fast machine learning system.
A few months ago I put together a Docker image of Vowpal Wabbit, making it easy to run on any platform. It’s been sitting up on Github and the Docker Hub, but I forgot to write a blog post! So here it is:
https://github.com/mikestaszel/vowpal_wabbit_docker
You can download and run Vowpal Wabbit with one command – here is an example:
docker run --rm --volume=$(pwd):/data -t crimsonredmk/vw /data/click.train.vw -f /data/click.model.vw --loss_function logistic --link logistic --passes 1 --cache_file /data/click.cache.vw
Enjoy!