cluster analysis - What is Dim in k-means clustering or K-medoids?

Question

The Image contain clustersK-mdoids clustering

Here is data that are used to make clusters. Data that are used for clustering

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65897092/what-is-dim-in-k-means-clustering-or-k-medoids

Answer 1

By looking at the images I'd guess there was a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) done before clustering. Otherwise your 8 dimensional space couldn't be plotted. The percent values are the percentage of variance explained by the principal component.