Deniz Cem Önduygu

Just realized I haven’t shared this figure I designed for @tastanoznur.bsky.social in 2023, visualizing the data structures and volumes used in their personalized drug synergy prediction. Also added in my Commissioned Information Design page: www.denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/co...

Why does wind have precedence over other conditions on the Weather app? I don’t care about the wind, I just wanna know whether it’s gonna be sunny or not.

2025 was one of the worst years of my life for the most part, but moving to Bodrum and starting sertraline turned it on its head (see Mood). Feeling great now, and grateful for the support of my family, friends, & partner.

Vital Signs 2014–2025 update: www.denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/vi...

Timeline of the commissioned & personal projects I’ve worked on in 2025. (In August-September we moved house.)

Google Analytics gives me headaches so I tried Google Continentals but it’s even more confusing.

The Cabinet in 2025 Your favourite articles, my favourites from others + plans for 2026.

The last post in 2025. A year in review.

One belated announcement before 2025 ends: In May I added Donna Haraway and updated Sandra Harding (1935–2025). Hope to write a more extensive post in Q1'26 for the other additions. Haraway link:
www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse...

Thanks, will check it out.

Heidegger, The Age of the World Picture (1938)

What 350 different theories of consciousness reveal about reality There are hundreds of coherent theories attempting to explain the origins of experience. Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores what they reveal about free will, artificial intelligence and life after death

And here’s the @newscientist.com feature:
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

YouTube video by Essentia Foundation All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video.

Here’s another nice video about the project:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6...

As a long-time enjoyer, I’m delighted to work with Dr Kuhn & his team. I’m in awe of his vision, his diligence, his kindness & energizing attitude, and his ability to reciprocate my long emails with even longer ones. One of the best collaboration experiences I’ve had.

Another scatter plot comparing the rankings of theories of consciousness in Google search hits vs Google Scholar search hits, as a rough indicator of discrepancies between public and scholarly/scientific interest.

A similar connected scatter plot that focuses on theories in the Materialism category, showing their subcategory, order of magnitude, degree brain matters, scholarly/scientific interest, complexity, and connections among them.

In this connected scatter version, x-axis positions represent order of magnitude (e.g., quantum level, cellular level, neuronal level, neural networks, whole brain, whole body, extended mind, universe); y-axis positions represent level on a materialism-idealism scale.

A force-directed graph with alignment connections. Colors represent the categories to which the consciousness theories belong. Sizes of the shapes represent scholarly interest, the number of Google Scholar hits. Number of edges of a shape represents the theory’s complexity.

After my proposal in Dec’24, we came up with theory features like order of magnitude, materialism-idealism scale, complexity etc. Eser Aygün and Amaç Herdağdelen used Gemini to get theory scores & similarity degrees. I designed and implemented the visualizations using @kumu.io. ↓

Landscape of Consciousness is a project I’m proud to be part of! Thanks to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Àlex Gómez-Marín, and Peter Getzels for welcoming my proposal to visualize this landscape of theories of consciousness. See it live here:
loc.closertotruth.com/interactive
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You become an adult when you come to accept that every “stainless” product can get rusty.

could be one of the coolest photos I’ve taken (with my left hand)

Partner thought her mint candies were covered with mold. Under microscope (100–400×) they looked like crystals to me and after some googling I concluded these were menthol crystals grown thanks to humidity and heat. She still didn’t want to eat them.
doi.org/10.1039/D4CE...

Two scientific figures I designed for @ahugumrah.bsky.social and @ozge-akbulut.bsky.social respectively have been published:
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

What a wonderful person Helen was. RIP

Kant softening the blow like “I wrote this easier, shorter version for you dimwits, and if you still don’t understand I’m sure you’ll do great in physics or something”

Back in the 90s I led a team of artists and researchers mapping out all the debates about AI. It was a huge project. We read over a thousand papers and organized it all into a massive set of debate maps. 1/3

İl Nüfusları 1927–2023 - Deniz Cem Önduygu Konda ile hazırladığımız Türkiye 101 projesinin ana temalarından biri kentleşme idi. Ben de bu bağlamda küçük boylarda...

I thank Eren Pultar and Konda Research for helping me with the data collection. If you want to use these visualizations, you can cite this post (in Turkish): Önduygu, D.C. (2025). “İl Nüfusları 1927–2023”. www.denizcemonduygu.com/2025/05/il-n...

Insight: While working on this, I realized that when we use dots instead of color to represent population on a political map, we’re *visualizing* both the population and the density (population / land area). (It could work better with smaller unit areas than provinces.)

And this is a static version that shows the absolute and proportional values for provinces in parallel.

This version uses the absolute numbers to show the total population growth since 1927; each dot represents 3000 people.