diff --git a/caravel/assets/visualizations/nvd3_vis.js b/caravel/assets/visualizations/nvd3_vis.js
index d131928b86a91..0809f56070701 100644
--- a/caravel/assets/visualizations/nvd3_vis.js
+++ b/caravel/assets/visualizations/nvd3_vis.js
@@ -309,6 +309,12 @@ function nvd3Vis(slice) {
         .attr('width', width)
         .call(chart);
 
+        if (fd.show_markers) {
+          svg.selectAll('.nv-point')
+          .style('stroke-opacity', 1)
+          .style('fill-opacity', 1);
+        }
+
         return chart;
       });
 
diff --git a/caravel/forms.py b/caravel/forms.py
index 5de93cf830a80..3cd689230d404 100755
--- a/caravel/forms.py
+++ b/caravel/forms.py
@@ -235,6 +235,13 @@ def __init__(self, viz):
                 "default": False,
                 "description": ""
             }),
+            'show_markers': (BetterBooleanField, {
+                "label": _("Show Markers"),
+                "default": False,
+                "description": (
+                    "Show data points as circle markers on top of the lines "
+                    "in the chart")
+            }),
             'show_bar_value': (BetterBooleanField, {
                 "label": _("Bar Values"),
                 "default": False,
diff --git a/caravel/viz.py b/caravel/viz.py
index 5413abb859bfa..77cad106fdfa3 100755
--- a/caravel/viz.py
+++ b/caravel/viz.py
@@ -984,7 +984,8 @@ class NVD3TimeSeriesViz(NVD3Viz):
             ('show_brush', 'show_legend'),
             ('rich_tooltip', 'y_axis_zero'),
             ('y_log_scale', 'contribution'),
-            ('line_interpolation', 'x_axis_showminmax'),
+            ('show_markers', 'x_axis_showminmax'),
+            ('line_interpolation', None),
             ('x_axis_format', 'y_axis_format'),
             ('x_axis_label', 'y_axis_label'),
         ),