[Lens] Document the "Other" entry in data summaries in Kibana guide (e…

…lastic#85575) * 📝 Address Other entry in data summaries * 👌 Integrated feedback from review * 📝 Add not about going beyong 100% with array values * 👌 Improved documentation for summaries * 👌 Improved documentation for data summaries covering discussed aspects by type and hardcoded stat values * Update docs/user/dashboard/dashboard.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <[email protected]> * Update docs/user/dashboard/dashboard.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <[email protected]> * Update docs/user/dashboard/dashboard.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <[email protected]>
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@@ -228,6 +228,20 @@ To view the data field summary information, navigate to the field, then click *i
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 image::images/lens_data_info.png[Data summary window]
 
+*Lens* shows a summary depending on the type of data: date fields show the time distribution, string fields show the top 10 values, and numeric fields show a detailed summary with the top 10 values and a value distribution.
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+image::images/lens_data_info_documents.png[Data summary analyzed documents]
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+*Lens* uses a sample of 5,000 documents to perform the field analysis. The bottom line of the summary shows the percentage of sampled documents over all available documents.
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+When *Lens* presents the top 10 values distribution, it also shows the percentage of "Other" values. For array value fields, the percentage distribution is considers each value in the array separate.
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+image::images/lens_data_info_other.png[Data summary window with Other]
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+NOTE: the sum of all the entries and "Other" may be above 100% by a small amount, that is due to a rounding problem when presenting all values as integers.
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diff --git a/docs/user/dashboard/images/lens_data_info_documents.png b/docs/user/dashboard/images/lens_data_info_documents.png
diff --git a/docs/user/dashboard/images/lens_data_info_other.png b/docs/user/dashboard/images/lens_data_info_other.png