Technologist Emil Eifrem says a combination of graph databases and the Person, Object, Location, Event data model trialled in Greater Manchester exposed a web of networks...

Graph database technology is a powerful way of both recognising and leveraging connections in large quantities of otherwise random data. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists used it to detect fraud and corruption in its recent famous Panama and Paradise Papers global probes, for instance, while Google uses a graph-based way of representing knowledge to enhance its search engine and map the Web.