Andrés Felipe Camacho
This project visualizes the relationship between rising temperatures and their impacts on family life and child development. Using linked climate and household survey data, it explores two critical questions: (1) How does heat exposure affect parenting behaviors and discipline practices? (2) How does heat influence early childhood development outcomes?
The interactive data story combines global temperature trends, spatial data linkage methodology, and exploratory patterns that motivated two research papers on heat's effects on violent child punishment and developmental delays. The visualizations reveal that temperature impacts are not uniformly distributed—they concentrate among vulnerable populations including poorer households, urban dwellers, and communities without adequate water and sanitation infrastructure.
This work demonstrates how climate change is not just an environmental issue, but a human development crisis affecting the most vulnerable children from their earliest years.
View the interactive story: static-story-deployed
(https://anfelipecb.github.io/climate-development/)
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
UNICEF. (2017-2020). Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, Round 6. Geocoded household and child-level microdata from Georgia, The Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and State of Palestine. New York: UNICEF.
Available at: https://mics.unicef.org/
ERA5-Land Climate Reanalysis
Muñoz Sabater, J. (2019). ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1950 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). 2-meter maximum temperature at ~0.1° (~10km) spatial resolution.
DOI: 10.24381/cds.68d2bb30
Available at: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Climatological Normals
1991-2020 climatological baseline used for temperature anomaly calculations, following WMO standards.
Natural Earth
Natural Earth. (2023). Admin 0 – Countries (1:50m and 1:110m cultural vectors).
Available at: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Cuartas, J., & Camacho, A. (2025). Heat and Violent Child Punishment at Home. Psychology of Violence. doi: [https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000651] available here
Cuartas, J., Balza, L. H., Camacho, A., & Gómez-Parra, N. (2025). Ambient Heat and Early Childhood Development: A Cross-National Analysis. [forthcoming]
Note: All data sources are properly cited within the final HTML visualization at static_viz/index.html.
I used AI to minimally provide an html template with a table of contents and fixed Header to get the design started **