I recommend finding overlap between the specialties, that will ease any transition, improve your knowledge of both, and help you find new applications for techn

I recommend finding overlap between the specialties, that will ease any transition, improve your knowledge of both, and help you find new applications for techniques. I know ML is as hyped up as Data Science has been. It is important to realize that both of those sub-fields have developed out of long histories in Statistics, Math, and CS so try to learn as much of the backstory as you can.