Michael Mahoney (UC Berkeley), the PI of the NSF-TRIPODS grant at UC Berkeley, wrote a very interesting two-part article on his view and experience on their TRIPODS endeavor in the current SIAM News. The Part II was just published recently. I strongly encourage you to read it. I nodded my head several times while I read this article:

• https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/the-difficulties-of-addressing-interdisciplinary-challenges-at-the-foundations-of-data-science-part-i-of-ii
• https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/the-difficulties-of-addressing-interdisciplinary-challenges-at-the-foundations-of-data-science-part-ii-of-ii