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* 📝 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 <wylieconlon@gmail.com>

* Update docs/user/dashboard/dashboard.asciidoc

Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <wylieconlon@gmail.com>

* Update docs/user/dashboard/dashboard.asciidoc

Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <wylieconlon@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <wylieconlon@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Wylie Conlon <wylieconlon@gmail.com>
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Expand Up @@ -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]

*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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