If you don’t know what Tableau (the Data Analysis software) – don’t worry. We’ll talk about it at some point, and using it is totally optional.
If you do know what Tableau is, I have great news. They’ve donated it for use in the class, so you can try it out! There’s a posting on Canvas with directions (it’s on Canvas since I can’t share it beyond class).
On the topic of useful software for doing this kind of work… The University has site licenses for JMP, SPSS, and some other things I’m less familiar with in the Campus Software Library. Again, you don’t need any of that for this class, but if you want to try some of it…