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[Lens] Document the "Other" entry in data summaries in Kibana guide #85575

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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]

*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.

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]

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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