Graphical Dyslexia -- building intuition for common data visualizations? It took me years before I could understand what was going on in a histogram. I had trouble understanding the tails, skewness, and concepts such as "fat tails."

With a lot of practice, histograms have become more intuitive for me.

I believe I have some sort of "graphical dyslexia."

I want to build an inituitive understanding of basic, common types of data visualizations such as:


histograms
scatter plots
dotplots
stem and leaf plots
density plots


By intuitive, I mean that when I glance at one of these plots, I want to figure out the gist of it within a few seconds (rather than stare at it for minutes without anything registering in my mind, as is usually the case for me).

StackExchange: can you recommend to me books/resources that can help me with this?
There are two books that are our "bibles" in data visualisation.


Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
David McCandless Information is Beautiful


Tufte has a wealth of examples on good and bad visualisations. McCandless has some lovely, or even beautiful graphics and ways to display data.