What happens when you have so much data that it's impossible to know how many features are stacked up on top of each other? Is there a way to quantify them? Yes! And also make a cool hexbin map.

This video is brought to you by Dr. Bin Li, an outstanding geography professor at Central Michigan University, who taught me much about GIS, data management, intellectual curiosity, and just being cool. Thanks Dr. Li!

0:00 Rousing introduction
0:21 Insanely dense data
1:07 Creating a hex mesh
2:58 Spatial join merges layers based on location
4:26 Applying a graduated color visualization
6:10 Applying a symbol-size visualization
7:40 Adding color back into the scaled symbols
8:29 Hacking a 3D surface with the data
11:02 Thanks Dr. Li!

Here's a companion blog post to accompany this video. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/prod...

Check out some other social channels where I share how-to's and updates on random map adventures:

http://adventuresinmapping.com
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/auth...
  / john_m_nelson  
  / johnmnelson  
  / johnmnelson