Tableau has several products we will be utilizing at Tableau Public and will discuss Tableau Desktop. Tableau is a software company that makes a suite of software for creating and publishing data visualizations. Tableau is a fully-featured software that allow you to import data and apply a number of different transformations to that data, and eventually create a number of different visualizations. These include charts, graphs, plots, maps, etc. Then, Tableau can compose multiple visualizations together and add interactive elements like filters and point-and-click functionality.
For this workshop you will need to create a Tableau Public account.
Tableau Desktop for students - Tableau Desktop is free for students with a one year license.
Tableau Desktop for instructors - Tableau Desktop is free for instructors for teaching and non-commercial research.
You will need the follow files downloaded and ready to use during the workshop:
Resources from Tableau - https://public.tableau.com/app/resources/learn.
Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations by 
Practical Tableau by