# Discover data seems different from visualize data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-data-seems-different-from-visualize-data/160940>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-data-seems-different-from-visualize-data/160940 "2018-12-14T16:32:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![josh\_taroko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@josh\_taroko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/josh_taroko)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-data-seems-different-from-visualize-data/160940/1 "2018-12-14T16:32:10Z")

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I am trying to visualize my data that is stored in ElasticSearch. However The does not seem consistent between discover and visualize. As you can see in this discovery

 ![discover/visualize image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/c/ccfc5549883674a655ab06de4d40f368cb66d85d.png) when I divide the graph by significant terms only 2 terms show up, But, the image shows in the discover side there is another term that has log data that is now showing up. Additionally, if I just show significant terms I get 2 results ![get 2 results](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/3/23c2ba3ddce6a0732b0c705628fefa6d0945f80f.png), but If I filter ![filter](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/6/06031f8b32f2440bb76a9ee285a47d76bcbf87e6.png) to a term that is not shown I still get a graph. This seems to me that the data exists but is not being shown in visualize for some reason. Any idea on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![josh\_taroko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@josh\_taroko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/josh_taroko)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-data-seems-different-from-visualize-data/160940/2 "2018-12-14T16:38:18Z")

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Sorry I think I found the problem. I should be using term not significant terms

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-data-seems-different-from-visualize-data/160940/3 "2018-12-20T20:10:59Z")

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That's right, think of significant terms as the terms that are uncommonly common in the given dataset vs. the entire dataset, whereas terms is just the terms that are most common.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-data-seems-different-from-visualize-data/160940/4 "2019-01-17T20:11:06Z")

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