Find Hot Spots (Grids)
Overview
The Find Hot Spots tool generates a grid of equal-sized cells based on your defined extents. You can create grid cells based on the current extent, study area extent, or extent of a feature in another layer. You can append demographic data to a grid cell to provide a normalized view of the data, identifying hot spots and areas of interest. The hot spot grid areas appear with prominent red coloring by default.
Input Prerequisites
This is a defined extent.
Example Output
This example shows a typical Grid analysis output created in Business Analyst:
- A default thematic layer is added to the map symbolized from the variable you choose.
- The attribute table contains unique cell identifiers and aggregated data for each selected variable for every cell.
- By default, the variable is divided into five classes using natural breaks and added to the table of contents.
Below is an example of the Grid thematic layer:
Below is an example of the Grid attribute table. This attribute table is directly related to the thematic output above.
Below is an example of the Grid layer added to the ArcMap table of contents:
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