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Taxonomy vs Interestingness - What's the difference?

taxonomy | interestingness |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and interestingness

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while interestingness is the state or quality of being interesting.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    interestingness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state or quality of being interesting.
  • * Chandola, V.; Banerjee, A.; and Kumar, V.; 2009; Anomaly detection: A survey , ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 41, no. 3, Article 15 (July 2009), 58 pages. DOI = 10.1145/1541880.1541882
  • The interestingness or real life relevance of anomalies is a key feature of anomaly detection.