How to create heat map of points with fishnet or tessellation?

Question

I have started using ArcMap 10.6 and need to create a heat map of point counts over the country. I am able to draw the fishnet over a smaller test area. What tool do I need to use to fill in the fishnet squares with graduated colors of point counts? I have tried numerous examples from google but they have not worked. My data set consists of only Lat/Long pairs in a file. I have converted these to shape files.

I attached a small screen cap of what I am trying.

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MikeAdam · Answer

I don't have the pro version. But I do have the spatial analysis add on.

But I need more basic help on this one. I created a tessellation over the whole country (USA). It is very slow.

I used a simple join from tessellation to the longitude field to test out and I can see highlighted hexagrams if I also apply a "Select by Attribute" on the Join shape file. But this is not what I am interested in.

Is there any website/video that can help get me understand steps to get a point count heat map?

Also I have tried PointDensity and Aggregation and these dont seem to take the tessellation as an input field. Also PointDensity has very odd distributions such as -1,307,732.125 -- -1,162,428.556... I know at least the coord projections are the same.

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

If you have the spatial analyst extension and the tessalation is converted to raster first so you can control cell size, and analysis extent and related parameters.

SteveLynch · Answer

what about Density?