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by tfpgh 20 days ago
It's a choice. The layout isn't PCA, it's a force-directed embedding (ForceAtlas2). This acts directly on the directed graph of pages and their links, I think you would need some other representation to do PCA.

You could likely run ForceAtlas2 in 3D or higher and get better clustering fidelity, but that obviously makes visualization harder.