I'm open to fully remote contract, freelance, and part-time gigs

My books are open! I’m looking for remote freelance and contract work doing database migrations, data assessments, digital projects, development/programming, digital asset management, analytics, or data storytelling.
Portfolio: https://www.decolfutures.com
Email me: danareijerkerk@gmail.com

• I'm presenting my generative AI, video game, art exhibition project at BitCurator Forum

  Posted on February 27, 2024

  I’m speaking at the BitCurator Forum in a few weeks! I’m presenting my latest data scientist project on generative AI, art, and video games related to Philadelphia’s Black public art. The virtual conference is $50/ticket if you’re not a member and includes really cool talks about AI, machine learning, and... [Read More]

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  • AI
  • Public Speaking
  • Research
  • Video Game

• I finished a costs of digitization data science project

  Posted on February 26, 2024

  I saw a call for help with data analysis last year in my email, so I joined up! I went to the first few meetings and volunteered to take on their messiest unstructed dataset from a survey sent out in 2021. I convinced the group at large to make dashboards... [Read More]

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  • Freelance
  • Technical Writing

• Announcing "Moonlight" my next upcoming video game

  Posted on February 13, 2024

  My fellowship last year inspired me to explore video game design. I was demoing different game engines and came across Ren’Py - it’s great for visual novels/interactive fiction and runs off of Python logic. I’m in the early stages of game development. Here’s a teaser gif: [Read More]

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  • Video Game

• Meet the decol Futures Brand

  Posted on February 11, 2024

  My goal for 2024 is to give big, loud, proud Virgo energy. [Read More]

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  • Freelance

• Using the IIIF Workbench to Make a Dope Black Visual Archive

  Posted on January 13, 2024

  In 2023 I started The Creative CoLab, a creative partnership with the great kYmberly Keeton. Since last year, we’ve experimented with generative AI, video game design, comic books, and digital projects. kYmberly inspired me to look at what the IIIF viewer can do. The Black Beauty Culture Project in GitHub... [Read More]

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  • Projects

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