Comment by jldugger

> I think you're describing anomaly detection.

Well it's in the same neighborhood. Anomaly detection tends to favor finding unique things that only happened once. I'm interested in the highest volume stuff that only happens on the abnormal state side. But I'm not sure this has a good name.

> Waste isn't about good vs bad, it's about value: does this data help anyone debug anything, ever?

I get your point but: if sorting by the most strongly associated yields root causes (or at least, maximally interesting logs), then sorting in the opposite direction should yield the toxic waste we want to eliminate?