Ms Natalie De Vries

Ms Natalie De Vries

Adjunct Associate Lecturer

School of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Career Summary

Biography

Natalie de Vries graduated with a B.Com in Economics, a B.Bus in International Business and Marketing and a first-class Honours thesis in Marketing in 2013 at the University of Newcastle. She joined the University of Newcastle as a staff member first as a research assistant in marketing and in August 2013, she started working at the University's Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery and Information-Based medicine (CIBM), which is now re-branded as the group of Life and Economy Applications of Data Science (LEADS). Here she conducts interdisciplinary research with computer science researchers in the field of computational social science as well as being in charge of the centre's outgoing communications to the general and online community and engage with private donors of the centre.

Natalie's research encompasses computational social science, marketing, online consumer behaviour, social media and related areas. Through her collaborative work with other members of the centre, Natalie conducts studies analysing large datasets through clustering, community detection, ranking, proximity graph analysis and behavioural model building amongst other methodologies.

Research Expertise
Natalie de Vries' main area of research is consumer behaviour using computational social science techniques. Combining interdisciplinary fields to investigate online consumer behaviour, social media metrics and behaviour using predictive modeling, community detection and clustering among other methods. 


Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Business, University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Commerce, University of Newcastle

Keywords

  • Behaviour Modeling
  • Computational Social Science
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Data-Driven
  • Social Media Analysis

Languages

  • Dutch (Fluent)
  • French (Working)
  • English (Fluent)
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 1005 (2019)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4

Chapter (19 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'Datasets for Business and Consumer Analytics', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 965-987 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_26
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 De Vries NJ, Olech LP, Moscato P, 'Introducing Clustering with a Focus in Marketing and Consumer Analysis', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 165-212 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_3
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Moscato P, De Vries NJ, 'Marketing Meets Data Science: Bridging the Gap', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland 3-117 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_1
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Mathieson L, De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'Using Network Alignment to Identify Conserved Consumer Behaviour Modelling Constructs', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 513-541 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_12
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Fundamentals for Business Data Analytics', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 119-162 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_2
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Lobos CS, De Vries NJ, Inostroza-Ponta M, Berretta R, Moscato P, 'Visualizing Products and Consumers: A Gestalt Theory Inspired Method', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 661-689 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_16
Co-authors Pablo Moscato, Regina Berretta
2019 Carlson J, De Vries N, Moscato P, 'Clustering Consumers and Cluster-Specific Behavioural Models', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Switzerland 235-267 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_5
Co-authors Jamie Carlson, Pablo Moscato
2019 Haque MN, de Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'A Multi-objective Meta-Analytic Method for Customer Churn Prediction', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Switzerland 781-813 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_20
Co-authors Pablo Moscato, Mohammad Haque
2019 De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'Datasets for Business and Consumer Analytics', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 965-987 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_26
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Mathieson L, Moscato P, 'An Introduction to Proximity Graphs', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 213-233 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 De Vries NJ, Olech LP, Moscato P, 'Introducing Clustering with a Focus in Marketing and Consumer Analysis', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 165-212 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_3
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Moscato P, De Vries NJ, 'Marketing Meets Data Science: Bridging the Gap', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland 3-117 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_1
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Moscato P, 'Business Network Analytics: From Graphs to Supernetworks', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 307-400 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Gabardo A, Berretta R, Moscato P, 'Overlapping Communities in Co-purchasing and Social Interaction Graphs: A Memetic Approach', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 435-466 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_9
Co-authors Pablo Moscato, Regina Berretta
2019 De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Fundamentals for Business Data Analytics', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 119-162 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_2
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2019 Lobos CS, De Vries NJ, Inostroza-Ponta M, Berretta R, Moscato P, 'Visualizing Products and Consumers: A Gestalt Theory Inspired Method', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 661-689 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_16
Co-authors Regina Berretta, Pablo Moscato
2019 Moscato P, Mathieson L, 'Memetic Algorithms for Business Analytics and Data Science: A Brief Survey', Business and Consumer Analytics: New Ideas, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 545-608 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-06222-4_13
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2018 Inostroza-Ponta M, de Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'World's best universities and personalized rankings', Handbook of Heuristics, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 1335-1371 (2018) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07124-4_60
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2017 Inostroza-Ponta M, De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'World s Best Universities and Personalized Rankings', Handbook of Heuristics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland 1-37 (2017) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07153-4_60-1
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
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Journal article (5 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2018 Carlson J, Rahman M, Voola R, De Vries N, 'Customer engagement behaviours in social media: capturing innovation opportunities', Journal of Services Marketing, 32 83-94 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1108/JSM-02-2017-0059
Citations Scopus - 87Web of Science - 74
Co-authors Jamie Carlson
2017 Carlson J, De Vries NJ, Rahman MM, Taylor A, 'Go with the flow: Engineering flow experiences for customer engagement value creation in branded social media environments', Journal of Brand Management, 24 334-348 (2017) [C1]

A vital objective for brand managers is to engineer compelling branded social media consumption experiences for consumers that create value and innovation opportunities for brand-... [more]

A vital objective for brand managers is to engineer compelling branded social media consumption experiences for consumers that create value and innovation opportunities for brand-building advantage. This multidisciplinary study, anchored in flow theory, investigates for the first time the role of flow, configured as a hierarchical model in a branded social media environment, as having a direct influence on customer engagement value (CEV) creation. Using a survey of 371 consumers, a theoretical framework was empirically tested using structural equation modelling. The results validate flow modelled as a higher-order construct, which unlocks and positively influences perceptions of CEV in branded social media environments. Curvilinear quadratic effects of flow are also investigated which provide novel insights on how optimising salient components of flow act as key customer experience mechanisms for maximising CEV creation in social media.

DOI 10.1057/s41262-017-0054-4
Citations Scopus - 16Web of Science - 14
Co-authors Alex Taylor, Jamie Carlson
2014 De Vries N, Carlson JL, 'Examining the drivers and brand performance implications of customer engagement with brands in the social media environment', Journal of Brand Management, 21 495-515 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1057/bm.2014.18
Citations Scopus - 185
Co-authors Jamie Carlson
2014 de Vries NJ, Carlson J, Moscato P, 'A Data-Driven Approach to Reverse Engineering Customer Engagement Models: Towards Functional Constructs', PLoS One, 9 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0102768
Citations Scopus - 11Web of Science - 10
Co-authors Jamie Carlson, Pablo Moscato
de Vries NJ, Reis R, Moscato P, 'Clustering Consumers Based on Trust, Confidence and Giving Behaviour: Data-Driven Model Building for Charitable Involvement in the Australian Not-For-Profit Sector', PLOS ONE, 10 e0122133-e0122133 [C1]
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0122133
Citations Scopus - 7Web of Science - 5
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
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Conference (5 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2017 Gabardo AC, Berretta R, De Vries NJ, Moscato P, 'Where Does My Brand End? An Overlapping Community Approach', Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems. The 20th Asia Pacific Symposium, IES 2016, Canberra (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49049-6_10
Citations Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Pablo Moscato, Regina Berretta
2016 de Vries NJ, Arefin AS, Mathieson L, Lucas B, Moscato P, 'Relative neighborhood graphs uncover the dynamics of social media engagement', Advanced Data Mining and Applications. 12th International Conference, ADMA 2016, Gold Coast, QLD (2016) [E1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49586-6_19
Citations Scopus - 1
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
2014 Moslemi Naeni L, de Vries N, Reis R, Arefin AS, Berretta R, Moscato P, 'Identifying Communities of Trust and Confidence in the Charity and Not-for-Profit Sector: A Memetic Algorithm Approach', Proceedings IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud) 2014, Sydney (2014) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/BDCloud.2014.83
Citations Scopus - 6Web of Science - 5
Co-authors Pablo Moscato, Regina Berretta
2014 Lucas B, Arefin AS, de Vries NJD, Berretta R, Carlson J, Moscato P, 'Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics', Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, Sydney (2014) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/BDCloud.2014.56
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Regina Berretta, Jamie Carlson, Pablo Moscato
2014 de Vries NJ, Arefin AS, Moscato P, 'Gauging Heterogeneity in Online Consumer Behaviour Data: A Proximity Graph Approach', Proceedings the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud), Sydney, NSW (2014) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/BDCloud.2014.23
Citations Scopus - 1
Co-authors Pablo Moscato
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Ms Natalie De Vries

Position

Adjunct Associate Lecturer
CIBM
School of Electrical Engineering and Computing
College of Engineering, Science and Environment

Contact Details

Email natalie.devries@newcastle.edu.au
Phone (02) 40420489

Office

Room L3 Pod
Building HMRI Building.
Location Hunter Medical Research Institute (New Lambton Heights)

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