The purpose of this document is to recommend data visualization practices that will help education agencies communicate data meaning in visual formats that are accessible, accurate, and actionable for a wide range of education stakeholders. Although this resource is designed for staff in education agencies, many of the visualization principles apply to other fields as well. The focus is on tailoring visualization recommendations to meet common needs of the education community, as determined by the collective experience of our working group members. This resource strives to: (1) introduce the concept of data visualization and the ways in which it can improve how education data are viewed, analyzed, communicated, and understood by a range of education stakeholders; (2) describe key data visualization principles and practices that can be applied to education data; and (3) explain how the data visualization process can be implemented to support effective data analysis and communication throughout an education agency. The guide is presented in the following chapters. Chapter 1: Data Visualization in Education Organizations defines data visualization for the purposes of this document, describes how data visualization blends components of both science and art, and explains how data visualization can improve data use in the field of education. Chapter 2: Data Visualization to Advance Data Analysis describes how data visualization can be a productive and sound technique for analysts looking to identify trends, patterns, and cues in data. Chapter 3: Data Visualization to Improve Communications introduces four key principles and seven practical recommendations that, if adhered to, will improve the effectiveness of any effort to visualize data for audiences who need to understand and use education data to make decisions. Chapter 4: Implementing the Data Visualization Process presents a six-step process for visualizing data for both analytical and communications purposes. Using graduation rates as an example, the document's key principles and recommended practices are implemented and illustrated. A list of citations and additional resources is included.