The Spiro Values are a list of values that Digital Humanities projects embody. These values help projects define what their goals are, develop collaborations with other people that are working on similar projects, and encourage others around the world to participate and help improve onto their project. The Shape of History does an exemplary job at exemplifying the value of Experimentation. This value refers to a project’s ability to use tools, data, and methods to answer specific questions, and how well the project supports different interpretations and further exploration into ideas and topics.

The Shape of History can used to be answer specific questions about certain timeframes in history and it helps users find direct correlations between historical events and their potential influences. Most if not all users of The Shape of History utilize it in order to find answers to specific questions regarding multiple different topics, trends, and events in history. The Shape of History is perfect for answering users’ burning questions about how historical trends and events shaped one another, and the visualizations that users create with it can be used to point towards a vast multitude of different conclusions and correlations. Its ability to point towards so many different ideas is what makes The Shape of History so good at encouraging different interpretations and exploring further into the topics.