Why not display the pie charts in 2 dimensions instead of 3? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart the following quote:

Often used for aesthetic reasons, the third dimension does not improve the reading of the data; on the contrary, these plots are difficult to interpret because of the distorted effect of perspective associated with the third dimension. The use of superfluous dimensions not used to display the data of interest is discouraged for charts in general, not only for pie charts.

If it is screen estate you are worried about, then perhaps you could benefit from bar charts, or even horizontal bar charts:
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#bar_charts

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figaro’s picture

figaro commented
Title: Pie charts should not be in 2D » Pie charts should not be in 3D

Pie charts should not be in 3D
Too quick with the fingers.

slantview’s picture

slantview commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

It's not even finished yet. This is a pretty silly conversation to have, but I think I am going to use bar graphs anyway.

figaro’s picture

figaro commented

Not sure why it is silly and not sure why it is closed, but I trust the next version will see an improvement.

a.a.egoroff’s picture

a.a.egoroff commented

Guys, where did you find these charts in 6.x version? Or they available when memecached actually configured and working? Sorry for this stupid question bur issue wasn't closed:)