diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 21bcfb9954..bc3f09d043 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ jobs:
             - v1-windows-dataset-vector-{{ checksum ".cachekey" }}
             - v1-windows-dataset-{{ checksum ".cachekey" }}
 
- 
+
       - run:
           name: Run tests
           # Downloading embedding vector takes long time.
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml.in b/.circleci/config.yml.in
index 971f4eb971..911295217b 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml.in
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml.in
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ jobs:
             - v1-windows-dataset-vector-{{ checksum ".cachekey" }}
             - v1-windows-dataset-{{ checksum ".cachekey" }}
           {% endraw %}
- 
+
       - run:
           name: Run tests
           # Downloading embedding vector takes long time.
diff --git a/.circleci/unittest/linux/scripts/install.sh b/.circleci/unittest/linux/scripts/install.sh
index e9201b266b..a3ecba2770 100755
--- a/.circleci/unittest/linux/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/.circleci/unittest/linux/scripts/install.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ conda activate ./env
 printf "* Installing PyTorch\n"
 conda install -y -c "pytorch-${UPLOAD_CHANNEL}" ${CONDA_CHANNEL_FLAGS} pytorch cpuonly
 
+printf "Installing torchdata from source\n"
+pip install git+https://github.com/pytorch/data.git
+
 printf "* Installing torchtext\n"
 git submodule update --init --recursive
 python setup.py develop
diff --git a/.circleci/unittest/windows/scripts/install.sh b/.circleci/unittest/windows/scripts/install.sh
index 622ebc1cd1..1922b9a78f 100644
--- a/.circleci/unittest/windows/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/.circleci/unittest/windows/scripts/install.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ conda activate ./env
 printf "* Installing PyTorch\n"
 conda install -y -c "pytorch-${UPLOAD_CHANNEL}" ${CONDA_CHANNEL_FLAGS} pytorch cpuonly
 
+printf "Installing torchdata from source\n"
+pip install git+https://github.com/pytorch/data.git
+
 printf "* Installing torchtext\n"
 git submodule update --init --recursive
 "$root_dir/packaging/vc_env_helper.bat" python setup.py develop
diff --git a/test/common/case_utils.py b/test/common/case_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..03eec2627f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/common/case_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import unittest
+from torchtext._internal.module_utils import is_module_available
+
+
+def skipIfNoModule(module, display_name=None):
+    display_name = display_name or module
+    return unittest.skipIf(not is_module_available(module), f'"{display_name}" is not available')
diff --git a/test/experimental/test_datasets.py b/test/experimental/test_datasets.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a9ff700ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/experimental/test_datasets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import hashlib
+import json
+
+from torchtext.experimental.datasets import sst2
+
+from ..common.case_utils import skipIfNoModule
+from ..common.torchtext_test_case import TorchtextTestCase
+
+
+class TestDataset(TorchtextTestCase):
+    @skipIfNoModule("torchdata")
+    def test_sst2_dataset(self):
+        split = ("train", "dev", "test")
+        train_dp, dev_dp, test_dp = sst2.SST2(split=split)
+
+        # verify hashes of first line in dataset
+        self.assertEqual(
+            hashlib.md5(
+                json.dumps(next(iter(train_dp)), sort_keys=True).encode("utf-8")
+            ).hexdigest(),
+            sst2._FIRST_LINE_MD5["train"],
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            hashlib.md5(
+                json.dumps(next(iter(dev_dp)), sort_keys=True).encode("utf-8")
+            ).hexdigest(),
+            sst2._FIRST_LINE_MD5["dev"],
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            hashlib.md5(
+                json.dumps(next(iter(test_dp)), sort_keys=True).encode("utf-8")
+            ).hexdigest(),
+            sst2._FIRST_LINE_MD5["test"],
+        )
diff --git a/torchtext/_internal/__init__.py b/torchtext/_internal/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/torchtext/_internal/module_utils.py b/torchtext/_internal/module_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33ac388bc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/torchtext/_internal/module_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import importlib.util
+
+
+def is_module_available(*modules: str) -> bool:
+    r"""Returns if a top-level module with :attr:`name` exists *without**
+    importing it. This is generally safer than try-catch block around a
+    `import X`. It avoids third party libraries breaking assumptions of some of
+    our tests, e.g., setting multiprocessing start method when imported
+    (see librosa/#747, torchvision/#544).
+    """
+    return all(importlib.util.find_spec(m) is not None for m in modules)
diff --git a/torchtext/experimental/datasets/__init__.py b/torchtext/experimental/datasets/__init__.py
index bf2cbaa924..81bc90a801 100644
--- a/torchtext/experimental/datasets/__init__.py
+++ b/torchtext/experimental/datasets/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 from . import raw
+from . import sst2
 
-__all__ = ['raw']
+__all__ = ["raw", "sst2"]
diff --git a/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py b/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..85b892eb69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/torchtext/experimental/datasets/sst2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+import logging
+import os
+
+from torchtext._internal.module_utils import is_module_available
+from torchtext.data.datasets_utils import (
+    _add_docstring_header,
+    _create_dataset_directory,
+    _wrap_split_argument,
+)
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+if is_module_available("torchdata"):
+    from torchdata.datapipes.iter import (
+        HttpReader,
+        IterableWrapper,
+    )
+else:
+    logger.warning(
+        "Package `torchdata` is required to be installed to use this dataset."
+        "Please refer to https://github.com/pytorch/data for instructions on "
+        "how to install the package."
+    )
+
+
+NUM_LINES = {
+    "train": 67349,
+    "dev": 872,
+    "test": 1821,
+}
+
+MD5 = "9f81648d4199384278b86e315dac217c"
+URL = "https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/glue/data/SST-2.zip"
+
+_EXTRACTED_FILES = {
+    "train": f"{os.sep}".join(["SST-2", "train.tsv"]),
+    "dev": f"{os.sep}".join(["SST-2", "dev.tsv"]),
+    "test": f"{os.sep}".join(["SST-2", "test.tsv"]),
+}
+
+_EXTRACTED_FILES_MD5 = {
+    "train": "da409a0a939379ed32a470bc0f7fe99a",
+    "dev": "268856b487b2a31a28c0a93daaff7288",
+    "test": "3230e4efec76488b87877a56ae49675a",
+}
+
+_FIRST_LINE_MD5 = {
+    "train": "2552b8cecd57b2e022ef23411c688fa8",
+    "dev": "1b0ffd6aa5f2bf0fd9840a5f6f1a9f07",
+    "test": "f838c81fe40bfcd7e42e9ffc4dd004f7",
+}
+
+DATASET_NAME = "SST2"
+
+
+@_add_docstring_header(num_lines=NUM_LINES, num_classes=2)
+@_create_dataset_directory(dataset_name=DATASET_NAME)
+@_wrap_split_argument(("train", "dev", "test"))
+def SST2(root, split):
+    return SST2Dataset(root, split).get_datapipe()
+
+
+class SST2Dataset:
+    """The SST2 dataset uses torchdata datapipes end-2-end.
+    To avoid download at every epoch, we cache the data on-disk
+    We do sanity check on dowloaded and extracted data
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, root, split):
+        self.root = root
+        self.split = split
+
+    def get_datapipe(self):
+        # cache data on-disk
+        cache_dp = IterableWrapper([URL]).on_disk_cache(
+            HttpReader,
+            op_map=lambda x: (x[0], x[1].read()),
+            filepath_fn=lambda x: os.path.join(self.root, os.path.basename(x)),
+        )
+
+        # extract data from zip
+        extracted_files = cache_dp.read_from_zip()
+
+        # Parse CSV file and yield data samples
+        return (
+            extracted_files.filter(lambda x: self.split in x[0])
+            .parse_csv(skip_lines=1, delimiter="\t")
+            .map(lambda x: (x[0], x[1]))
+        )